Blank Pages

Even before there's a blank page, for me, there's an empty folder. When I start thinking about a new project, I usually start tearing articles out of the newspaper. That's the beginning, for me: a little ripped piece of paper, a magazine page torn out (often from a doctor's office, I must confess.) When I have two or three of these in a pile, they need a place of their own. That's when I label a folder. I just did it. It's red. It's called "New Novel." I don't know what it is yet. But it's now, officially, something....